How to make this sound?

[sebber]

Hi everybody,

I need some help in the ever so popular "How to make this sound" corner.

The sound attached is from a Roland System 100M and it's frequency modulation of a sine with a saw and I've been told it's a specialty of Roland synths. I think it sounds fantastic. Like electricity snapping through a wire.

Oh, ye Masters of patching, how do you do this on a G2?

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Roland FM Sine with Saw.wav
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[Blue Hell]

Sounds like aliasing on FM modulation .. maybe experiment with the quality reduction module ... what is it called again ... and or use LFO's instead of oscillators.

[sebber]

The Roland is an analogue synth so it can't be aliasing. It's original is made with a self-oscillating filter and a saw oscillator FM'ing it. I don't even get close to it on a G2.

[Electromagnetic Wave]

Hi sebber,

Interresting ! Do you have a G2 patch exemple to see what you tried ? Did you start by reproducing a self-oscillating filter or do you use a sine OSC module ?

[sebber]

You're right, I changed the sine oscillator with a self-oscillating filter and it does add quite some grid. Snappy envelope to it and playing an octave lower an on some keys it's 80% there. It should probably also use a shape oscillator and not a clean one for triangle and saw.

I attached the patch with sine and self-oscillating filter, the original patch with the triangle sound which works nice and for your viewing pleasure the score of Parmegiani. Top system is the tape part, then SR: Synth Roland System 100M, SA: originally an Arp 2600, later a Synthi AKS and SY, a Yamaha CS-40M. That last one was really hard to find.

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Roland FM Sine with Tri.wav
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[Electromagnetic Wave]

[sebber]

This has been laying dormant for a while, but Variation 4 led me to where I wanted it to be. Sounds very electromagnetic now, Electromagnetic, thanks a lot! I sounds great now! And I learned a lot.

Cheers
Sebastian

[Electromagnetic Wave]

Time is relative ! :p

good! you see variation 4!!

I remember after I saw the roland_fm_825.pdf I took this as a personal small chalenge and I made another version with modulation very close to the audio file. But I think I deleted it recently...

[sebber]

Electromagnetic, you just invented the time machine. Because if you google "roland_fm_825.pdf" you will see your own post but with four different time stamps all from 2013. It's magic.

[Electromagnetic Wave]

[sebber]

Super! Thanks a lot.

[faltac]

Hello everybody,
this is my first post in this forum.
Not least because of your interesting posts and tricks I would like to buy the Nord Modular G2 me.
It will take years, until I come to the vicinity of your know-how.

As the title of this thread already exactly contrary are my first question, I now wanted to also start a new thread.

you're here so apparently able to replicate virtually every conceivable synthesis forms with the G2.
I have here two mp3s to which I wanted to ask if you can recreate the well?

I can not currently imagine where to begin there.
The first file is a sound from Yamaha CS6x and is an extract of a demo.
The second file is the sound "Midnight Buzz" from the FM7.

how can i upload mp3s here?

Is something possible with a NM G2

Greeting, Faltac.

[Electromagnetic Wave]

Welcome faltac,

The best is probably to open a new topic about your request. Tell us if you have access to a G2 or if you use the demo software.